Borgias telly series

[carmen_lj]

So not very long ago I was whinging about the Lack of Lovely Historical Telly and I've only just discovered that, in fact, I need not have worried! A new series about the Borgias is going to be out next year! And just incase its mere existence was not enough to bring me Great Joy, Derek Jacobi's going to be in it! (Also, Jeremy Irons and Montserrat Lombard, hurrah!) Am RIDICULOUSLY EXCITED.

Comments

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Ooh. Excited too! (Though always with a qualm of Are They Going To Get Their History Right.) Renaissance intrigues + character actors = win, though.

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

HOORAY AND BIG OL' HAPPYDANCE!

I've read bios. The Borgias are their own big ol' soap opera. Although Lucrezia almost certainly wasn't a murderer, and spent most of her life, if you deduct one possible illegitimate child, in blatant respectability.

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

yessssssssss

[inamac.livejournal.com]

I suspect that it will be as historically accurate as the Tudors.

Though with more orgies. Not that the BBC version was entirely reliable on that issue *g*.

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

I totally read this as "Bourgeois telly series". And then I was trying to work out which of the shows I watch most qualified for that description. *g*

[nonelvis]

Derek Jacobi, Jeremy Irons, and actors from Bonekickers and Demons! This should be magnificent.

[fyrdrakken]

I'm shocked no one mentioned this to you on your historical TV post -- they kept showing the trailers as lead-ins to The Pillars of the Earth, correctly judging us to be the right target audience.

[oltha_heri.livejournal.com]

THIS MAKES ME HAPPY! LIKE PURELY ACTUALLY HAPPY.